AMERICAN ROUTES
San Antonio Sounds San Antonio Sounds September 20th, 2023 (Hour 1)
San Antonio Sounds

The great Texas river city is a mix of Mexican, German, Anglo and African American cultures, among others. Home to the Texas Conjunto Festival and the International Accordion Festival, San Antonio is best known for Tex-Mex or Tejano music played by squeeze box masters like Flaco Jimenez, Narciso Martinez and Mingo Saldivar among many. We’ll speak with Flaco, who in collaborations with Doug Sahm, Ry Cooder, and Los Super Seven, has carried the music worldwide. “Chicano brown-eyed soul” performers like Sunny and the Sunliners and other groups describe music that connected New Orleans and Louisiana Swamp Pop with San Antonio and East Los Angeles. We’ll also talk with Vox organ legend Augie Meyers who worked in the high hippie era with Doug Sahm as part of the Sir Douglas Quintet and later in the Texas Tornadoes. The conversation comes full circle with Max Baca, the leader and bajo sexto player of Los Texmaniacs who was influenced by both Flaco and Doug Sahm. The Grammy-winning family band sticks with tradition, but finds ways to include country, blues and rock. Plus music from Sam the Sham, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Freddy Fender and Willie Nelson. ¡Vamos!

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FAMILIES IN MUSIC

May 24th, 2006

The family that plays together stays together, and this week on American Routes we have a couple of them. First up, it’s 12 and Shorty, better known as James and Troy Andrews, brothers and horn players with a long New Orleans musical lineage. Rockers and brothers Cody and Willy Braun, of Reckless Kelly, and their father Muzzie share their memories of being in a cowboy family band.

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HOUR ONE

  • "Wynton Speaks" and "Cain and Abel" The Marsalis Family
    The Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration, Marsalis Music/Rounder
  • Brotherly Love Louis Jordan
    Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family
  • Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa Dixie Cups
    Teen Anguish, Vol. 1, Charly
  • Mama and Papa Earl King
    Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings, Okra-Tone
  • Mama Don't Allow Billie and DeDe Pierce
    Gulf Coast Blues, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Bourbon Street Parade James and Troy Andrews
    American Routes original recording,
  • INTERVIEW: James and Troy Andrews

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  • Stranger in My Own Home Town Percy Mayfield
    His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides, Rhino
  • Little Sister Elvis Presley
    From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters, RCA
  • Sister's Coming Home Willie Nelson
    Phases and Stages, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Cousin Sally Brown The Doc Watson Family
    The Doc Watson Family, Folkways
  • I Had a Real Good Mother and Father Gillian Welch
    Soul Journey, Acony
  • That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine The Everly Brothers
    Classic Everly Brothers, Bear Family
  • Valse de Balfa The Balfa Brothers
    Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Vol. 1 & 2, Swallow
  • Mom and Dad's Waltz Jerry Lee Lewis
    The Locust Years…, Bear Family
  • My Blue Heaven Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Devil's Dream Sid Hemphill
    Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia, Rounder
  • My Daddy's Blues Jessie Mae Hemphill
    Feelin' Good, High Water/HMG
  • If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
    Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Fantasy
  • If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again The Paramount Singers
    Work & Pray On, Arhoolie
  • Swanee River Rock Billy Lee Riley
    The Sun Years, SAAR
  • Instrumental: Old Folks at Home Gremoli
    The Solstice Sessions, Dargason Music
  • I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home Doc & Merle Watson
    Home Sweet Home, Sugar Hill
  • Daddy Frank (the Guitar Man) Merle Haggard
    The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology, Razor & Tie
  • INTERVIEW: Willy and Cody Braun of Reckless Kelly, and Muzzie Braun

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  • Instrumental: Home Sweet Home Doc & Merle Watson
    Home Sweet Home, Sugar Hill
  • Blue Railroad Train Delmore Brothers
    Brown's Ferry Blues, County
  • Train Song The Holmes Brothers
    Righteous!, Rounder
  • Green Green Grass of Home Porter Waggoner
    The Essential Porter Waggoner, RCA
  • I'm Goin' Home Ervin Webb, with prisoners
    Southern Journey Vol. 3: 61 Highway Mississippi, Rounder
  • Glory, Glory Pops Staples
    Father Father, Virgin
  • End Bed: End of My Journey The Campbell Brothers featuring Katie Jackson
    Pass Me Not, Arhoolie

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